Welcome to Errington Special Education Centre | Reception - Yr 12

Our school offers around 110 students with disabilities and special care needs a quality education, in a safe and secure environment. Education plans are tailored for each individual students personal and educational requirements. Our students range in age from 5 to 17 with varying degrees of physical and intellectual disabilities forge a new future at Errington Special Education Centre.

Errington Special Education Centre for decades was renowned for its care and education programme for special needs children, known as Ashford Special School on Anzac Highway.

Our brand new, purpose built school at Plympton opened in 2014, welcoming all of our students from Ashford Special School, into this exciting new facilitiy.Errington Special Education Centre is divided into four sub-schools within 3 buildings1) Junior Primary 2) Primary 3) Middle School 4) Senior School

We have multiple classes in each sub-school, each class averaging 8 students with one teacher who is supported by at least one Student Support Officer (SSO). Classes are structured to ensure each student receives the high level of support and care they need.

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2019 sees Errington Special Education Centre enter its 6th Year in our brand new school site.

School Closed - Pupil Free Day

Student Art work

Errington Facilities

Errington has a safe and secure environment with 3 sub-school buildings designed to create the most effective environment for each stage of learning. Each school subschool is self contained and has toilet and bathroom facilities, a kitchen. an art space and a calm room, they also each have their own age apropriate outdoor play areas that include exercise track and play equipment.

Education - Peace of Mind

We understand that caring for a child with a disability can be stressful.

When your child attends school, not only do we strive to ensure they achieve success in their learning environment accademically but also strive to work with parents to achieve success for students to manage emotion and peer interaction and in conjunction with parents and DECD professionals adress complex behavioural needs.

At Errington we educate a a diverse range of students, with varying disabilities and complex needs.

Such as:

Autisim Spectrum Disorder

Cerebral Palsy

Epilepsy

Global Development Delay

Simple and Complex Food allergies

A range Physical Disabilities

Severe Medical conditions

Down Syndrome

Our staff are highly trained to ensure we are ready to assist your child in the learning environment. Not only in techniques appropriate to engage with them with their negotiated education plan, but also emergency medical response requirements.

At the end of the day, we believe that every child deserves a quality education, in a safe environment, to help them be the best they can be!